After working seven years as a chef in an Italian restaurant, he joined in 2000 at the Tokyo College of Photography. He began working as a freelance photographer in 2002.

Tomohide Ikeya has received several national and international awards, and has presented his work in numerous exhibitions in Tokyo, Paris, Munich, Hong Kong, Cologne and others.

The work of this artist, is inextricably linked to the relationship between water and human being.

"Luna / Moon"

"Ola / Wave"

"Luna / Moon"

I'm a photographer who has a concept of "Control" for my work.

Water is one of "uncontrolled" things which the human being never can to do.

I had a lot of opportunities to think about ‘water’ with doing scuba diving in several countries as a hobby.

The beauty of sunshine viewed from under water, daily life of aquatics and me as human just be able to see their world for a moment...

We thought human could control water if we had lots of equipments and cared for risks in water, but human never be able to live in water. And we also never be able to live without water.

Water doesn’t only give a life, but also takes a life. On the other hand, water is not the Mother of Creation or the Master of Destruction, it’s just be there as ‘water’.

Water is a philosophical existence very much even be as ’just water’. I had been fascinated with water more and more and I had gotten a zeal for expression it.

It is one of reasons which I became a photographer, so I have been creating my works which has a relation with water.

I'm expressing "enthusiasm for life" by photography throughout the figure of Water and Human.»

"Ola / Wave"

"Luna / Moon"

MOON

The moon's gravity caused the flux and reflux of the tides,

And stimulated the development of life on earth

If the sun represents the birth of life,

The moon would represent the rhythm of life

Evolution would differ without the moon

"Respiración / Breath"

«Among the many restrictions that exist in this world [under the water], this work focuses on “BREATH,” the most essential factor. Breathing is indispensable to us; it repeats continually during our life, and we consider death to be the point at which breathing stops. Usually, breath is invisible, and I think it never registers in our consciousness.

By separating ourselves from this phenomenon, which is so close to our own lives, we can consider its essence and value.

This occurs in the water. When we are covered in water, the fear inside of us comes to the surface. Beyond this, the condition of not being able to breathe reveals our attachment to life. I capture this entirely unpredictable scene of struggle.»

"Luna / Moon"

"Respiración / Breath"

"Ola / Wave"

Stillness and movement happen by the boundary line of the ocean and the land.... 5 inches deep.

[synopsis]

The boundary between nature and human, which is visualized by the wave splash.

The human who lies down on the edge of the only 5 inches deep surf.

In that scene, it can be reflected the human’s resistance against the nature.

And, at the same time, it can be also seen the sense of weakness comes from the powerlessness to the wave.

The wave that swallows the human.

The human who lies down as debris on the beach.

The wave unreels the armor of all the people;

Status, gender and age…

And the wave treats the human as a thing which blocks the smooth flow of the nature.

Yet, coincidentally, it can’t be denied the fact the human is also included in the cycle of the nature.

Integration and Resistance.

How to overcome the contradiction between them?

“WAVE” raises questions about the relationship between nature and human,

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